Chó do Guri

Maria de Fátima - better known by her pen name Cho do Guri - (24 January 1959 – 7 July 2017) was an Angolan poet and writer.

Biography Fatima was born on January 24, 1959, in Quibala, Cuanza Sul Province in Portuguese Angola. Fatima received her primary and secondary education in Luanda. She studied pharmaceutical sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She graduated in social policy by the Open University of Lisbon. Chó do Guri has had several poems published in anthologies in Angola and Brazil. She worked as a columnist for the weekly newspaper Folha 8.

Works Vivências (1996) Bairro Operário - a minha história (1998) Morfeu (2000) Chiquito de Camuxiba (2006) Na Boca Árida da kyanda (2006) A filha do Alemão (2007) Songuito e Katite (2009) O Cambulador (2013) Pulas, Bumbas, Companhia Limitada e muita Cuca (2016)